Benn Jordan did a recent video on his…explorations of Flock cameras. Essentially, they’re easily hackable and really should be an urgent matter of national security.

They aren’t losing anything, just as the military doesn’t lose money, nor the healthcare system. It is a public service.

Just blame immigrants for the problem, they’ll let those comments stay for sure.

You can request that you not receive unaddressed mail, it’s quite nice not having a mailbox stuffed with garbage.

Just because you may not use a postal service much doesn’t mean others don’t. It’s really the only option for those without mobile devices, computers, or internet access. Dismantling or privatizing the postal service would have a significant negative impact on seniors, elderly, and rural and remote communities.

Treating public services like a business needs to end. Sure you can call it a crown “corporation”, but its purpose is to serve citizens in a defined way, not to make a profit.

If the postal service is subject to this scrutiny, why not the military as well?

I’d say it’s highly likely that archivists/data hoarders pulled all available photos at time of release. They’ll exist somewhere.

“now you’re locked in, let the gouging begin”

Essentially the definition of enshittification.

This looks terrible to use. /c/ergomechkeyboards (or the same on that other website) are where the real ergonomic keyboards are at.

I don’t doubt that Canadian PDs are drooling over any potential of using them in Canada.

Relevant video I saw posted elsewhere on Lemmy today.

Tl;dw: Flock cameras are alarmingly easily hackable and many of their security and efficacy claims on their website are outright false.

Not surprising in the slightest.

I love the user tagging system on Lemmy apps. A nice bright label for this one.

And foreign alfalfa farms.

At first I thought it was a certain member of the group, which sort of fit the context but I’d never heard the term so looked it up.

Because I had to look it up, and to save others the effort, a sounder is the term for a group of wild boar or pigs. Like a pack of wolves or a murder of crows.

I think the focus of the article is more on using services deliberately rather than pure privacy, and I think the all or nothing approach to thinking of online privacy as you mention detracts from any positive effects of the little things people just starting their journey may try.

Those big companies don’t care about you. Every small step taken toward privacy is beneficial, even if it’s just eliminating one data point at a time. If you make it harder to find your info, they aren’t going to hire a PI to track you down, there are plenty of easier marks to chase.

It’s amazing the lengths that politicians will go to waste time doing anything but that which would benefit society.

The one near me got torn down this year…so not a whole lot I guess.

Sorry, but the shit companies have bought up all the smaller, non-shit companies, leaving us with shit for options.

If you have a powered doorbell, the Reolink cams can be powered by that too.